2 Chronicles 20:24 - Exposition

The watch-tower . See 2 Chronicles 26:10 , where, however, the ordinary מִגְדָּל , and not the present word (only found, except as a proper name, here and Isaiah 21:8 ), is employed. It is scarcely likely that a built watch-tower is intended even here, but rather a lofty site and point of view from which a large number of people could see. The proper names Mitzpeh ( Mizpeh ) and Mitzpah ( Mizpah ) are of course familiar. They looked unto the multitude . Judah and its army and heralding Levite singers would see now in new significance the thing said by Jahaziel in our 2 Chronicles 26:16 , "Ye shall find them at the end of the brook-course, before the wilderness of Jeruel." And none escaped ; i.e. "without an exception.